BUZZ NEWS SHORTS Luke Cage, Bone, Robin Hood & More

••• While Netflix doesn’t release specific viewing figures, Symphony Advanced Media, a company that gathers media consumption data, reports that Luke Cage outperformed the second season of Daredevil and also gave Stranger Things and Making A Murderer a run for their money. In fact, over its first month Luke Cage did better than Stranger Things and Making A Murderer in their first months, though they had more longterm traction. [via Comic Book Resources]

••• Summit Entertainment has announced that its “gritty” version of Robin Hood (the film formerly known as Robin Hood: Origins), starring Kingsman’s Taron Egerton, will open in the States on 23 March 2017. Packed with gritty battlefield exploits, mind-blowing fight choreography, and a timeless romance, Robin Hood – directed by Peaky Blinders helmer Otto Bathurst – is a never before seen story of how Robin Hood because the icon and legend as we know him today.

•••Kung Fu Panda director Mark Osborne is set to direct a film adaptation of Jeff Smith’s Bone comic for Warner Bros. “Bone is very special and unconventional because it blends elements together that you don’t necessarily expect — soft, little comic characters and epic high stakes fantasy adventure,” Osborne tells The Hollywood Reporter. “To carry this into the cinematic realm presents both an opportunity to represent what readers of all ages have loved about the series, while pushing animated storytelling into exciting and different areas.”

••• Fox 2000 has optioned the rights to Divergent author Veronica Roth’s latest short story, Inertia. The story blends elements of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and 500 Days of Summer in a love story that takes place in the near future where technology allows for “last visitations” – a process in which a person can be connected to the consciousness of another nearing death. When Claire’s estranged best friend Matt is left in critical condition after a terrible car accident they revisit their shared past, reliving the highs and lows of their relationship, and make new discoveries about the future they might have shared. [via Deadline]

••• Roland Emmerich’s oft-times collaborator Dean Devlin is set to direct sci-fi fantasy movie Countdown, based on a spec script by Steve Altiere, a story editor on Dinotrux for Netflix. The story is about a boy fascinated by space travel who recruits his friends and an eccentric NASA engineer to hatch an unbelievable plan to try and save his dying father. “I was immediately captured by Steve’s script when I read it, and knew that this was something we as a company could get very excited about. I look forward to turning this into a thrilling adventure for all audiences,” says Devlin.